ABSTRACT
When people first began to turn to psychotherapists for help with their sexual inadequacies, their dysfunction was usually considered to reflect a deep-seated personality disorder. As a result, the therapy, generally psychoanalytic in approach, did not focus on their current behavioral deficits but on the presumed dynamics and historical roots of the current symptoms. Such psychoanalytic treatment has not been successful for sexual dysfunction (Lorand, 1939; Moore, 1961) and is both lengthy and expensive. For example, Bergler (1947, 1951) has stated, ‘an appointment several times a week for a minimum of eight months’ is necessary for treatment of orgasmic dysfunction, and therefore, ‘as a mass problem, the question of frigidity is unfortunately not to be solved.’
